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Most Victims of Sexual Assault Know the Alleged Offender, Study Finds
A study conducted in a sexual assault resource center found more than 70 percent of alleged offenders were known to the victims. The report by researchers at the University of Tennessee, “Percentage of...
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Former Georgia DJJ Officer Arrested for Alleged Sexual Assault of 14-Year-Old...
Interior, Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Center A former Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) corrections officer was arrested Wednesday for alleged sex crimes that occurred while she was...
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After a Sexual Assault, a Teen Victim turns to Social Media
In most states, media outlets are prevented from reporting the names and some details in juvenile cases. This practice is born of the idea that juveniles can be rehabilitated and returned to society...
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#MeToo Needs to Include #GirlsToo
I recently read an Associated Press interview with singer and actress Mary J. Blige in which she shared her personal account of sexual harassment, beginning at age 5. “From age 5 to 17, I [went]...
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Sexual Assault, Suicide Attempts at 2 Understaffed Arkansas Lockups
Arkansas Nonprofit News Network (Part 3 of 3) Teenagers confined to two state-run South Arkansas juvenile lockup frequently were not adequately supervised, according to nine current and former staffers...
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Ending Sexual Assault in Youth Detention Centers
Rampant violence and civil rights abuses in juvenile prisons are prompting calls to shut them down. In the wake of scandals in 2017 in Texas and Florida where correctional officers were accused of...
View ArticleCharge Against Kavanaugh Sparks Talk About Rehabilitation From Unusual Sources
Christine Blasey Ford’s charge that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh at 17 sexually assaulted her when they were both in high school has focused attention on the polarizing issue of juvenile...
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Coercive Sexual Environments Exist Differently For Justice-involved Girls in...
Imagine: You are 15 years old. Your mother, deep in drug debt, sends you to give a strange man $10. But somehow you know he expects more — your body. The world judges you as reckless, promiscuous, and...
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Ex-state adviser implicated in youth center abuse lawsuits
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The girls at New Hampshire’s youth detention center called their dormitory leader “Peepin’ Dave” because they say he leered at them through a bathroom window. But David Ball,...
View ArticleFederal bureau releases new data on reported sexual assault and harassment in...
Of 1,762 confirmed incidents of youth being sexually harassed, abused or assaulted in juvenile facilities from 2013 through 2018, roughly 28.3% involved adult staff victimizing youth and 71.6% involved...
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